Analysis: Las Vegas is hosting the biggest show in town, but it's a slow build
By Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent
Las Vegas, the famous 24-hour city, is much quieter than usual.
The COVID-19 pandemic has ensured the casinos, shows and hotels are at a fraction of their normal capacity but there are still plenty of partygoers and gamblers wandering its glitzy strip looking for action in its many and varied forms.
Twenty minutes from the brash downtown, surrounded by desert, mountains and working class housing is the Clark County Election Centre.
It may have none of the glamour of Las Vegas but it’s host to the biggest show in town - the presidential election vote count.
Occasional groups of Trump supporters wave banners, call for the count to be stopped and often dance, somewhat bizarrely, to music.
There is an expectation that this smallest of the undeclared states could play an active part in choosing the next president.
All sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? It isn’t! The count is so slow it’s now a social media meme.
The officials have asked for calm and patience. The journalists are calm to the point of catatonia.
At 9am and 4pm, they stir to greet the latest data drop.
The last one was barely 30,000 ballots counted and that took nearly two days - there is at least another 150,000 to go.
With most of the votes left to count being cast in the strongly Democratic Las Vegas area, many are wondering why the networks haven’t called the result, bringing an end to the tedium of the reporters outside and the public waiting to hear.
The truth is, they haven’t and they shouldn’t because it may all be over bar the counting, but the counting hasn’t finished.
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2020-11-07 00:31:41Z
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